Shirt-pressing machine



P. N. BRAUN SHIRT PRESSING MACHINE (CUFF, YOKE, AND NECKBAND) I N VEN TOR.

fiflwan A TTORNEYS Filed April 14. 1926 Patent ed May 8, 1.928;

- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PHILIP N. BRAUN, OF SYRACUSE; NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE PROSPERITY COM- PANY INC., 01 SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, A. CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

SHIRT-PBESSING MACHINE (CUFF, YOKE, AND NEGKBAND).

Application filed April 14, 192 Serial No. 102,003.

4 and has for its object a particularly simple and efficient construction by which a plurality of pressing operations are performed at the same time on one machine.

The invention consists in the novel features and in the combinations and constructions hereinafter set forth and claimed.

In describing this invention reference is had to the accompanying drawings in which like characters represent corresponding parts in all the views;

Figure 1 is a front elevation of one form of pressing machine embody ng my invention. 2

. Figure 2 is a plan view of the ironing faces of the lower units the position assumed by the neck band and yoke being indicated in dotted lines.

Figure?) is a fragmentary elevation looking to the left, Figure 1 of the upper and lower pressing elements.

As will be understood bythose skilled in the art, in commercial laundries, shirts are pressed by a plurality of operations performed on difierent machines or in some instances on the same machine b different operations, that is the neck ban is pressed in one operation or on one machine, the front of the shirt pressed in another operation, the back in another operation, the cuffs in another operation.

By my invention a lnrality of these operations. which have eretofore been performed on difierent machines or at least at difierent times are performed in one operation.

This pressing machine, therefore, comprises cooperating upper and lower pressing elements having relative movement,. one'toward and from the other, each pressing element comprising a plurality of units shaped to perform difierent operations or act upon different portions of the shirt requiring different pressing operations. The machine also comprises cooperating pressing elements shaped to press the neck yoke and contiguous portions of the shirt. 7

lln the illustrat d embodiment of mymachine, the pressing elements are shaped to press the neck band and yoke, and the ends of a shirt in one operation and each pressing element, therefore,comprises a central unit shaped to iron the yoke and the neck band and side units on opposite lateral sides of the central unit for ironing or pressing the cuifs of the shirt. A w

- 1 and 2 designate the upper and lower elements, as a whole, the upper element being movable. toward andv from the lower and supported by a. frame lever 3 of any well known construction suitably mounted or pivoted to the frame 4 of the machine to move toward and from the lower. pressing element. The lower pressing element 2 is suitably mounted on the frame 4. The'upper pressing element is actuated in any s'u1t-' able manner either by hand, foot or b a power, and as the various forms of manna pedal or power means are well known to those skilled in the art, description of any actuating means is thought to be unnecessary. Each pressing element consists of three units and the units of the upper and lower elements are complemental to each other.

5 designates a central unit of the lower pressing element, 6 is the complemental central unit of the upper pressing element 1.

7 arethe outer or side units of the lower element 2,.and 8 the complemental units of the upper pressing element 1. The central unit 5 is shaped to press the neck band and yoke of a shirt and is in the form of a buck having downwardly and laterally inclined pressing faces 10 on which the neck band of a shirtis pressed and a forward somewhat circular extension ll at'the apex of the buck or at the highest portions of the faces 10 for pressing the yoke. As here shown this buck 5 is also formed with a flat surface 12 at the apex? of the buck and the extension 11 is in the plane of the surface 12. Owing to the somewhat circular shape of the extension 11, its side edges converge inwardly toward the middle of the extension as they approach the front edge of the surface 12 of the buck 5 and thus form clearances into which the portions of the shirt-adjacent the neck band can enter. The lower pressing element 5 thus has downwardly and laterally extending pressing faces with the shelf 11 extending forwardly from the highest portion of the body or major partof said element and in front of the front edges of the body. This extension 11 is shown as supported by brackets 13 formed on the buck 5. Only a small portion of the central unit is used to iron a neck band, but the central unit is made wide wilt enough from front to rear to accommodate the widest collars of shirts and blouses, etc., having attached collars instead of neck bands to which detachable collars are attached.

The central unit 6 of the head 1 is provided with wings 14 having surfaces complemental to the surfaces of the buck 5, and a forward extension 15'complemental to the extension 11-.

The bucks 7 and heads 8 are of any well known construction for pressing cuffs and are here shown as having diverging pressing surfaces, the pressing surfaces of the head 8 being in the form of an inverted V, and those of the buck 7 complemental thereto.

In usual practice, other operations such as ironing the shirt front and back having been performed on other machines, gland usually these operations are so performe ),the pressing of the cuffs finishes the operation, and the only pressing thatthe neck yoke gets is that erformed whilethe back and the front are eing pressed, also heretofore when cuffs were being pressed no other pressing operation was being performed at the same'time. Or oftentimes the ends and neck band are ironed first and second by different operations. Heretofore the front of the yoke, or that part of the shirt within the neck band, when the shirt is folded has been ironed on a separate machine or by hand. As is well known", the purpose of ironin the front face of the yoke is mostly to ma e the package or folded shirt look neat and finished.

By this machine the yoke and neck band are pressed at the same time as the cuffs and the entire operation requires no more, or velriy little more than the pressing of the cu s, and very muchmore satisfactory results in shirt pressing are brought about more quickly than by other methods of pressin or machines.

W at I claim is l. A shirt pressing machine comprising upper and lower pressing elements, one of which is movable toward and from the other and means for actuating the movable element, the lower element having downwardly and laterally inclined pressing faces and a central, substantially flat pressing face at the apex of the inclined faces, and also having a forward extension in the plane of the apex portion of the pressing element and extending forward beyond the edge of the inclined faces. 7

2. A shirt pressing machine comprising upper and lower pressing elements, one of which is movable toward and from the other and means for actuating the movable element, the lower element having downwardly and laterally inclined pressing faces and a central, substantially fiat pressin face at the apex of the inclined faces, and a so havin a forward extension in the plane of the fiat mea re.

face, the side edges of the forwardly extend ing portion converging inwardly toward the median line of the extension to form clearances as the approach the forward edge of said incline faces.

3. A pressing machine comprising upward and lower pressing elements, one of which is movable toward and from the other and means for actuating the movable element, said element having complemental pressing faces and the lower element being provided with downwardly and laterally inclined pressing faces and a forward extension in line with the upper apex portion of the inclined faces and the forward extension extending beyond the edges of the inclined faces.

4. A pressing machine comprising upper and lower pressing elements, one of which is movable toward and from the other and means for actuating the movable element, said elements having complemental pressing faces and the lower element being provided with a. downwardly and lateral y inclined pressing face and a forward extension in line with the upper apex portions of the inclined faces, the lateral edges of the forward extension converging inwardly toward the middle of the extension as they approach the front edges of the inclined faces to form clearances at the junction of the inclined faces and the forward extension.

5. A shirt pressing machine comprising upper and lower pressing elements one havin relative movement toward and from the ot er, means for actuating the movable element, the lower pressing element having a central flat pressing face and pressing faces inclining downwardly and laterally from the central flat face with their front edges inclined rearwardly and the lower pressing element having a forwardly extending shelf in line with the central flat face, the lower pressing element being designed to receive aneck ck along the margin of its fiat and inclined faces with. the neck yoke on said shelf.

6. A pressing machine comprising upper and lower coacting pressing elements, one of which is movable toward and from the other, and means for actuating the movable element, the lower element comprising a body having downwardly and laterally extending faces and a forward extension at the highest portion of the body on the front side thereof, the forward extension extending forwardly beyond the front edges of the downwardly inclined faces of the body.

7. A pressing machine comprising upper and lower coacting pressing elements, one of which is movable toward and from the other, and means for actuating the movable element, the lower element comprising a body having downwardly and-laterally extending faces and a forward extension at the highest portion of the loody on the front side thereof, the forward extension extending forwardly beyond the front edges of the downwardly inclined faces of the body, the side edges of the forwardly extending portion converging inwardly toward the medial line of the extension to form clearances as 

